Last night the LBC team came first place at the glitzy Premier League-sponsored ‘Ultimate News Quiz’ event compèred by Gary Lineker and Martha Kearney. Jolly James O’Brien lifted the trophy cup…
This morning on LBC a bandaged O’Brien explained he “managed to skid on some ice on the way to work this morning and fell off my bike” after his “extraordinary victory.” How to be Up-Right coming out soon?
O’Brien struggled to find words at times during his show, for example when elucidating the former Marine Corps career of Vice President J.D. Vance for listeners. Guido, who enjoyed his commute this morning in the six degree London sunshine, offers commiserations to O’Brien for his inopportune accident and hopes the wound heals soon…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”
